People start their family owned business and become entrepreneurs because they dream of the freedom and rewards that can come with being one’s own boss. After observing thousands of entrepreneurs over the years, the rule – not the exception – is that, after a period of time, businesses become ENSLAVING rather than freedom giving!

What happens to these idealistic family business entrepreneurs is that, in the words of Michael Gerber, they’re “technicians suffering from an entrepreneurial seizure.” In other words, a successful plumber becomes a mechanical contractor, or a successful insurance salesman opens his own agency. They loved the jobs they were doing and thought they would be happier, healthier, and wealthier if they did it on their own. What happens over time, however, is that they begin to be swallowed up by all of the details associated with running a business that they don’t truly like. And the parts of the business that they truly loved when they started get put on the back burner in favor of all the urgent and necessary tasks that someone has to do.